The New York Times reports:
In the days before the Knicks won the N.B.A. finals, sending New York City into a rapture, a hacking group was quietly working to steal data from Madison Square Garden, including the records of celebrities and other customer information, according to three class-action lawsuits filed against the companies that own the arena and sports teams.
ShinyHunters, a hacking group, claimed responsibility for the attack and announced on June 12 that if it did not receive a ransom from the Garden, more than 26 million records would be leaked.
On June 16, ShinyHunters sent a new message: “It’s very simple. When you pay us, your data is deleted, and you move on with your life. When you don’t pay us, you get posted here, among other things.”
That same day, the hackers published the records after announcing that Madison Square Garden had “failed to reach an agreement with us,” according to the lawsuits, which were filed last week in the Southern District of New York.
Read more at The New York Times.
